Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan

How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame To...
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Author: Johnny Smith
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Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan by Smith, Johnny

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan

Dhs. 157.62

Jumpman: The Making and Meaning of Michael Jordan

Dhs. 157.62
Author: Johnny Smith
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
How Michael Jordan's path to greatness was shaped by race, politics, and the consequences of fame

To become the most revered basketball player in America, it wasn't enough for Michael Jordan to merely excel on the court. He also had to become something he never intended: a hero.

Reconstructing the defining moment of Jordan's career--winning his first NBA championship during the 1990-1991 season--sports historian Johnny Smith examines Jordan's ubiquitous rise in American culture and the burden he carried as a national symbol of racial progress. Jumpman reveals how Jordan maintained a "mystique" that allowed him to seem more likable to Americans who wanted to believe race no longer mattered. In the process of achieving greatness, he remade himself into a paradox: universally known, yet distant and unknowable.

Blending dramatic game action with grand evocations of the social forces sweeping the early nineties, Jumpman demonstrates how the man and the myth together created the legend we remember today.

Author: Johnny Smith
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781541675650

About the Author
Johnny Smith is the J. C. "Bud" Shaw Professor of Sports History and associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also the co-author of Blood Brothers, A Season in the Sun, and War Fever with Randy Roberts. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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